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The cure for folly. A satire on medieval charlatans and quack doctors who claimed to cure madness by extracting a stone from the person's forehead. Wood, 48 x 35 cm Inv. 256
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The cure for folly. A satire on medieval charlatans and quack doctors who claime...

The cure for folly. A satire on medieval charlatans and quack doctors who claimed to cure madness by extracting a stone from the person's forehead. Detail of 40-05-04/1 Inv. 256
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The cure for folly. A satire on medieval charlatans and quack doctors who claime...

The Garden of Delights, triptych, left panel. Paradise abounds with plants and animals; an owl in the fountain represents knowledge; God between Adam and Eve in the foreground. Wood, 220 x 97 cm Inv. 2823
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The Garden of Delights, triptych, left panel. Paradise abounds with plants and...

The Garden of Delights, triptych, center panel. Groups of people and animals, fantastic constructions and strange plants form an allegory of the pursuit of carnal pleasures. Wood, 220 x 195 cm Inv. 2823
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The Garden of Delights, triptych, center panel. Groups of people and animals, f...

The Garden of Delights, detail of center panel, top. Naked men and women ride on real and imaginary animals around a pool with bathers. An ornate fountain in the background. An allegory on the pursuit of carnal pleasures. Inv. 2823
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The Garden of Delights, detail of center panel, top. Naked men and women ride...

The Garden of Delights, detail center panel, bottom left. Naked men and women offer and eat giant berries. A couple makes love in a glass bubble, "pleasure is as fragile as glass"; large birds watch the bathers. Inv. 2823
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The Garden of Delights, detail center panel, bottom left. Naked men and wome...

The Garden of Delights, detail center panel, bottom right. Nude men and women eat and offer giant berries; an owl symbolizes knowledge; the panel is an allegory on the pursuit of carnal pleasures. Inv. 2823
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The Garden of Delights, detail center panel, bottom right. Nude men and wome...

The Garden of Delights, triptych, right panel. A vision of Hell and its punishments. A city on fire in the background; various tortures; a pig with the veil of an abbess represents the corrupt clergy. Wood, 220 x 97 cm Inv. 2823
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The Garden of Delights, triptych, right panel. A vision of Hell and its punishme...

The Garden of Delights, detail right panel, bottom half The tortures of Hell; abandoned musical instruments symbolize punishment for carnal sins. Right foreground a pig with the veil of an abbess stands for the currupt clergy. Inv. 2823
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The Garden of Delights, detail right panel, bottom half The tortures of Hell; ab...

The Garden of Delights, right panel, top half. A burning city in the background; fleeing people drown in a lake of fire; bagpipes and knives as sexual symbols; tortures of Hell. Inv. 2823
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The Garden of Delights, right panel, top half. A burning city in the ba...

The Haywain. A Flemish proverb says "The World is a haywain from which every man takes what he can". The rich, Emperor and Pope, arrive in grand cavalcade; the poor grab what they can and the clergy have already taken their share. Wood, 135 x 100 cm Inv. 2052
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The Haywain. A Flemish proverb says "The World is a haywain from which every ma...

The temptation of St. Anthony the Great. The head of an abbess sits atop a whorehouse; her hat is a bird-house. Wood, 70 x 115 cm Inv. 2913
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The temptation of St. Anthony the Great. The head of an abbess sits atop a...